government has agreed to change a new sugarcane pricing rule,Railways Minister Mamata Banerjee told reporters after a meeting of seniorgovernment ministers on Friday.Credit...
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Trinamool Congress chief and Union Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee on Monday said that her party did not support Maoist violence and questioned the source of ammunition of CPI (Marixst) cadres in West Bengal.Addressing a public rally in the Kolkata, Mamata Banerjee questioned the source of arms for the ruling Communist party's cadres while decrying the violence perpetrated by Maoists.'How come the...
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Home Minister P Chidambaram has termed CPI-M leader Sitaram Yechury's allegations against Railway Minister Mamata Banerjee as 'baseless'.Speaking to media persons here, Chidambaram said, "I am not at all happy that one political leader has made such allegations against another political leader."Earlier, Sitaram Yechury had blamed that Mamata Banerjee had prior information about Maoists holding up the...
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Red-dominated West Bengal is seeing green. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress has swept the by-elections, winning 7 of the 10 assembly seats up for grabs.What makes this success even sweeter, for Didi, as she's known, is that arch-rival CPM hasn't won any. Speaking to NDTV, Mamata Banerjee said, "I am confident of the people. People want change, they want good governance." The point, lost on nobody,...
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Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee said on Thursday, Nov 12 that the growing membership of former Naxalites in main stream politics would strengthen the democratic system."A section of Naxalites in West Bengal has shunned violence and joined main stream politics by reposing their faith in democracy. This is a good sign for strengthening the democracy in the country," the Railway Minister said.Acknowledging...
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Nandigram, Nov 4: Trinamool Congress leader Mamata Banerjee challenged the CPI(M) government in a meeting at Sonachura on Tuesday, Nov 3, to arrest her if the accusing party can prove Trinamool Congress' Moaists connection.Reacting to the accusation leveled against her party, Mamata said,"I challenge the government to arrest me if I have any links with the Maoists," adding that its not the Trinamool...
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Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman who had taken offence to party supremo Mamata Banerjee describing him as a "guest in the party" and wanted to resign his Lok Sabha seat, today said that he did not want to hurt her."I have no dispute with Mamata Banerjee. I don't want to hurt her," Suman told a Bengali news channel. "I feel differences can be sorted out," the singer-politician said in an apparent softening...
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see no change at all in her (Mamata Banerjee). She … wears a mask. She is always giving false hopes and doing mischief.”“As far as I have known her, she was never a fickle-minded person. She has always been a very able administrator and a very good mass leader.”At the end of the day’s work in her previous tenure as Railway Minister 10 years ago, Mamata Banerjee used to be in the habit of falling back...
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Tuesday’s detention of the New Delhi-bound Rajdhani Express by supporters of Maoist leader Chhatradhar Mahato was planned by Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee and Maoists, Shyamal Chakraborty, senior leader of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) said on Wednesday.“The demand made by the attackers to free Mahato has only been raised by the Police Santrash Birodhi Janasadharaner Committee (PSBJC),...
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Trinamool Congress MP Kabir Suman who had taken offence to party supremo Mamata Banerjee describing him as a guest in the party and wanted to resign his Lok Sabha seat, today said that he did not want to hurt her. "I have no dispute with Mamata Banerjee. I don't want to hurt her," Suman told a Bengali news channel. "I feel differences can be sorted out," the singer-politician said in an apparent softening...
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